US National Archives Will Upload all its Holdings to Wikipedia

The US National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) has announced that it will be uploading all of its holdings to the Wikimedia Commons. Dominic McDevitt-Parks, the Wikipedian in residence at the National Archives and Record Administration, stated, “The records we have uploaded so far contain some of the most high-value holdings … However, we are not limiting ourselves … Our approach has always been simply to upload as much as possible … to make them as widely accessible to the public as possible.”

The plan seems to be a bit fuzzy at the moment with a long-term objective defined but with few details announced.

Dick Eastman has been involved in genealogy for more than 35 years. He
has worked in the computer industry for more than 40 years in hardware,
software, and managerial positions. By the early 1970s, Dick was already
using a mainframe computer to enter his family data on punch cards. He
built his first home computer in 1980.